[SOLVED] Negative colors

Hi,
I noticed while playing a .rm file, later also with .avi, that the colors are negative: red becomes green, etc.
How can I change this? Do I need another codec, or another nVidia driver for my 8500GT card? If it is the driver could somebody please explain in simple terms how to install the driver since the explanation in the README file on the nVidia driver is way too complicated. I have no idea what to do and how to do it. I am relatively new to Linux and this is way out of my league.

Re: Negative colors

Hrmm.

I've been playing with this myself (I have an identical issue to you) and it seems that you need to run it before you play any video or change brightness settings etc. so it is quite annoying. I'm still trying 2 figure out a good way of automating it or making it more permanent.

Sorry I still don't have a total solution yet, so for now I would recommend you put a launcher on your gnome panel that you can click if the colour goes funny It's what I have and it isn't too annoying juuuust yet.

Re: Negative colors

Originally Posted by peitschie

Hrmm.

I've been playing with this myself (I have an identical issue to you) and it seems that you need to run it before you play any video or change brightness settings etc. so it is quite annoying. I'm still trying 2 figure out a good way of automating it or making it more permanent.

Sorry I still don't have a total solution yet, so for now I would recommend you put a launcher on your gnome panel that you can click if the colour goes funny It's what I have and it isn't too annoying juuuust yet.

Thanks again for your answer. I placed it on my desktop and can start it when I need to. At least the colors in the videos are perfect now.

Re: [SOLVED] Negative colors

In VLC player, go to Tools -> preferences and select VIDEO. In the Video settings, look for "Output". Change it to something like "OpenGL video output" and click on save. Restart VLC player. It works like a charm. If it doesn't work, try changing the Output to other options available in the drop down.